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Beck, Palin, and Limbaugh: The Three Stooges of "Peaceful" Revolution

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Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh say that neither they, nor Sarah Palin, had any influence on Jared Loughner's decision to commit the heinous killings in Tucson on Saturday. That could, indeed, turn out to be the case after the investigation is complete. However, that still doesn't mean that these three stooges aren't accidentally steering America towards another, second, bloody insurrection.

In 1776, in the midst of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet titled "Common Sense". That pamphlet is largely credited with not only influencing a major increase in recruitment to the Continental Army, but also with motivating those troops to win the critical battles that that army would soon face. It was an armed conflict. It was a bloody conflict. "Common Sense" helped America win that "armed" and "bloody" conflict.

In June, 2009, along comes Glenn Beck, just six months after the first African American President is elected, re-writing a revisionist, modernized version of Paine's pamphlet, titled "Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine".

Even though I have never read Beck's version of "Common Sense", I consider it to be the most incendiary, violence influencing book of the 21st century. Why? Because about 300 million Americans, just like me, haven't read it. All they know is that the GOP thinks that Glenn Beck is an honest man, and, that Glenn Beck says America's government, under the first black President, is "out-of-control". Thomas Paine's version was a call to arms. Now, in modern times, Beck writes a revisionist version that coincides with a tour, with Sarah Palin, called the "Take Our Country Back Tour!". Is Glenn Beck sending us a secret coded message, the GOP must be asking itself, i s it time to mount our bayonets?

Speaking of Sarah Palin, how about those non-incendiary 2010 midterm election surveyor maps?

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The Palin camp swears that they weren't meant to be target symbols. They were meant to be surveyor symbols, they claim. But, look what Sarah twittered on March 23, 2010, just one week before the maps went public.

T'aintbad, Sarah. Too bad you couldn't do it without skirting an armed Revolution - note Palin's "Commonsense" association. The problem is, that this all has the potential to wind up much less like "American Revolution II", and much more like "Civil War II". These "Stooges" are playing with catastrophic fire.

And then, there's the Maha Rushie, with his "glorious naked body" and "talent on loan from God-duh and JeeeeSUS".

Limbaugh is the king daddy of fundamentalist, three stooge, conservative lunacy. From the October 26, 2010, Rush Limbaugh Show, in a segment titled, "Confused Clifford on Reverse Operation Chaos and "Tyranny":

The tyranny of the minority is Obama. We are being ruled in this country by a minority, a very small minority. Obama and liberalism in this country represent 25 to 30% of the thinking in this country. We outnumber liberals in all these personal preference polls by two to one. Why in the world are we the ones have to act defensive about who we are? They're the ones that ought to be explaining who the hell they are and what they're doing! They're the ones destroying America, by design or by accident or who cares? That's what's happening. In many cases it is by design. But they are the ones. You know, Obama said "punish your enemies," walking out there. He's not interested in getting along with us. He's not interested in compromise or anything. He's not interested in recognizing where he's going wrong and the American people disagree with it and all that. This is... In a lot of people's minds, this is it, where the future of the country is concerned.

Sorry to have to tell you this, GOP Americans, but Limbaugh is wrong about almost everything that's going on, on Planet Earth. He's wrong, for instance, when it comes to the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, the science of global climate change, the Bible, the science of Evolution, nutritional science, exercise science, sports, and anything else he chooses to pontificate about. That's why he hides behind a caller dump button.

Then there was this, just the other day from the "pervert, perverting the Constitution". From the January 6, 2011, Rush Limbaugh Show, in a segment titled " Don't Bother Sending Your Kids to New York to be Union Stagehands":

You mentioned Cloward-Piven. The purpose of Cloward-Pivenis to overload the welfare system. Just overload it. It can't survive. It totally crashes. Nobody has anything. You have total chaos. You have anarchy, because nobody has anything. Because without anybody working, nobody having a job, there's nothing produced and there's nothing to transfer, and nobody has anything. The people expecting to live off government largesse, there isn't anyway. The people expecting to live off Social Security, welfare, there isn't any if you take Cloward-Piven out to its natural conclusion. And during all this you have these people who say, "The government is good! It is the only good." They'll do nothing but rely on government

Here's the question that America needs to ask itself, even if there is no evidence that the Tucson shooting is tied to the these three wingnut ringmasters. While their separate, individual messages may not be "inciting" a bloody Revolution, could their combined message have that effect. Let's look at a brief, digest of that combined message looks like.

Beck sets the stage for modern acceptable revolution:

"Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine"

Just overload it. It can't survive. It totally crashes. Nobody has anything. You have total chaos. You have anarchy, because nobody has anything.

Of course, Limbaugh is saying that the blood will be on the hands of those gol darn libruls, because it is they, the gol darn libruls, that started all this with their nanny state, busy body, Obamacare.

These three clowns can kid themselves all they want. The truth is, that these three stooges may indeed be the Thomas Paine like catalyst that stirs America to Revolution, but the idea that theirs will be an unarmed, peaceful Revolution, when it happens, is ridiculous, irresponsible, and wishful thinking.

Michael Chamberlin is the designer/developer of the Fast Food Explorer website. An avid listener to talk radio, Michael enjoys listening to both sides of the political isle. After years of listening intently to both sides, he has come to one (more...)

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